Norman Lear
Norman Lear, the writer, director and producer who revolutionized primetime television with such topical hits as "All in the Family" and "Maude" and propelled political and social turmoil into the once-insulated world of sitcoms, has died. He was 101.
Lear died Tuesday night in his sleep...
"There's nothing I believe more than this, that laughter adds time to one's life," Norman Lear told an audience gathered to honor him and other four other television comedy greats.
"I believe that as much as I believe my mother loved me," the writer-producer added. "She said she did. But...
Free Solo, which won the Best Feature Documentary Oscar earlier this year, has now made its mark on the television front, topping the first night of the 71st Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony on Saturday (9/14) in Los Angeles with seven wins.
The wife and husband team of...
This year's Kennedy Center Honors recognizing outstanding artists and performers managed to skip the political drama that loomed over it earlier this year — just ask honoree Norman Lear.
Ahead of Sunday night's festivities at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the...
Norman Lear, a show business legend and full-throated humanist, set out last spring to rent a modest apartment in the Bronx.
The landlord welcomed this incognito white man with a couple of offers.
Not so lucky was an African-American man who had come to him the day before. The...
Norman Lear, age 94 and a native New Yorker, thought he knew a few things about the obstacles of housing in the Big Apple.
But when he began exploring the subject for "America Divided," Lear said he was "horrified at how little I knew. Someone making a reasonable living with two children...
Norman Lear was so touched by the documentary made about his life, he wanted to cuddle up with the entire audience at the Sundance Film Festival.
"If we could find the largest bed and we could all get in bed together, it would express everything I'm...